The Cairn _Colour Frontispiece_ PLATE FACING PAGE 1. Sir Ernest Shackleton in Polar Clothing 4 2. Mr. John Quiller Rowett 5 3. A Diagrammatic View of the _Quest_ 6 4. Sectional Views of the _Quest_ 7 5. The Sperry Gyroscopic Compass 10 6. The Enclosed Bridge of the _Quest_ 11 7. The _Quest_ at Hay’s Wharf 12 8. Kerr (Chief Engineer) Examining the Lucas Deep-sea Sounding Machine 13 9. The Wireless Operating Room—The Ward Room of the _Quest_ 20 10. The _Quest_ Passing the Tower of London on her way to the Sea—The Schermuly Portable Rocket Apparatus 21 11. The _Quest_ in the North-east Trades 28 12. The Tow Net in Use 29 13. A Porpoise which was Harpooned from the Bowsprit 32 14. Query—The Boss Gives Query a Bath 33 15. Landing the Shore Party at St. Paul’s Rocks 48 16. The White-capped Noddy (_Anous stolidus_) on St. Paul’s Rocks—The Booby (_Sula leucogastra_) 49 17. Commander Worsley Superintending Work in the Rigging at Rio de Janeiro 50 18. The _Quest_ in Gritviken Harbour 51 19. The Whaling Station at Gritviken 62 20. Sunset on the Slopes of South Georgia 63 21. The Resting Place of a Great Explorer 64 22. The Picturesque Setting of Prince Olaf Station 65 23. Prince Olaf Whaling Station 68 24. A Steam Whaler with Two Whales brought in for Flensing—Huge Blue Whales at South Georgia 69 25. The “Plan” at Gritviken, with a Whale in Process of Being Flensed 76 26. Leith Harbour, South Georgia 77 27. Chart of Larsen Harbour—The Entrance to Larsen Harbour 80 28. An Expedition in Search of Fresh Food—Marr, McIlroy, Commander Wild, Macklin 81 29. Commander Wild 82 30. A Small Berg—A Curious “Toothed” Berg 83 31. A Lovely Evening in the Sub-Antarctic 86 32. Too Many Cooks—Our First Deep-sea Sounding 87 33. The Western End of Zavodovski Island, showing